We have just seen the pic of tablets comparison. The new Amazon's Kindle Fire($200), a $200 color tablet that not only offers access to the vast Kindle bookstore, but also Amazon movies, apps, games, and music. Features a 7-inch color touchscreen that's chemically-strengthened(20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic), free cloud storage, 8GBs of internal storage, over 1,000,000 Kindle books and over 17,000,000 songs from Amazon MP3. It ships on November 15.

The photo above from page A5 of yesterday's Washington Post. So cute!"The caption: "This photo taken on September 26, 2011 shows a group of giant panda cubs napping at a nursery in the research base of the Giant Panda Breeding Centre in Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan province. China has launched its once-a-decade panda census, trying to determine how many of the endangered animals live in the wild amid efforts to boost numbers. The census — the fourth since it was first launched in the 1970s — is also expected to ascertain pandas' living conditions, ages and any change in habitat. According to the count a decade ago, there are 1,596 pandas left in the wild in China, with 1,206 of them living in Sichuan."

HD 720p All-in-One Projector, The Epson's Megaplex Projector($800) takes the audio and video from your iDevice and kicks it out through a pair of ten-watt speakers and a 2,800-lumen lamp at 720p resolution. It’s portable, too, with a carrying handle, and will juice your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch when plugged in.

Foldboat ‘Boat 1′ is made from a single sheet of P.E. plastic and folds into an easy to carry pack measuring 1m,50 by 60cm; this allows it to be easy to store and transport. Boat 1 is extremely accessible, easy to transport and very low maintenance. It is suitable for the city dweller or campers looking for a quick and easy boat.Boat 2 does not fold into a transport pack and instead remains in a flat sheet of 2m50 x 1m50. Boat 2 is a simplified model of Boat 1 and can be put together in 2minutes alone using only 3 components.

George Dawe was an English portrait artist who painted 329 portraits of Russian generals active during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

One talented artist using digital copies of these paintings as a basis for his own work which involves incorporating his friends, family and even some celebrities into the paintings using photoshop.

They are two short films about that moment in New York and Paris when you emerge from the subway and find yourself in a new and sometimes unexpected world. The first city is New York and the second is Paris.By Sarah Klein and Tom Mason Concept by Jennifer McClory Music by Erik Satie

The video shows the NSM getting launched from a land base, flying over an island, and then acquiring and striking a ship. Check out the video."Unlike most anti-ship missiles, the NSM uses an IR detector instead of radar, ensuring that it won't provide any detectable warning signals to its targets. GPS plus an in-flight data link let the missile make precise maneuvers and shift targets on the fly, and it also has "advanced terminal maneuvers," which means that it pulls some funky moves just before impact to keep from getting shot down at close range"

A puppy suffering from ‘Swimmer Puppy Syndrome’ was rescued from a trash bag on August 31 which a dog breeder had intended to throw away. Swimmer Puppy Syndrome forces puppies to lie flat with their legs splayed outwards rigidly due to their condition. After some massaging of her stiff muscles and sessions of hydrotherapy, the puppy named Little Harper is on her way to recovery.

'When what you see is not what you get' The 2D version of the 3D short film by Alexei Popogrebsky. We used the opportunity to test some concepts in 3D and see how it would translate to 2D, and vice versa. Originally part of the Experiment 5ive omnibus -- 5gum.ru . (Hence the black envelope with the picture inside, which had to be the common element of all 5 films) A very cool short film by Alexei Popogrebsky.

"This timelapse is about a year in the making. I started sometime in June of 2010 and finished it on August 19, 2011. It wasn't constant work of course, just working on it every now and then. I'd estimate I have invested anywhere between 250 and 300 hours on it. Most of this was time I spent walking, biking, or riding the bus to locations I was shooting. There are very few locations I used a car to get to. Total frame count is about 28,000 frames and 85 different shots. "Canon 5D and 5D Mark II Canon 16-35mm L Canon 70-200mm L IS Canon 15mm Fisheye Satechi TR-A Timer Remote Control Slik Pro 700DX Tripod Manfrotto 322RC2 Tripod Head Music is "Dayvan Cowboy" by Boards of Canada

The Scale Pen($90), designed by accomplished Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, is crafted from laser engraved aluminum like a classic triangular architect scale and each side is calibrated with a functional scale of measure.

Heathrow Airport has begun to transport passengers in computer controlled, driverless, car-sized personal "pods". The system reduces the time it takes business passengers to move from the terminal to the car park by 60%.